PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 99, 24 October 1939, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL

Her Excellency Lady Galway paid ant informal visit to the Centennial Exhibition Buildings at Rongotai this morning.

The Minister of Labour (the Hon. P. C. Webb) will leave for the West Coast tomorrow. . - Sir Harry Lindsay. K.C.1.E., C.8.E., honorary treasurer of the Royal Empire Society, who was expected to visit New Zealand in November, has been obliged by the. outbreak of the war to postpone his visit indefinitely. Professor J. Rutherford, chairman of the professorial board at Auckland University College, and Professor H. Belshaw left for Wellington yesterday to attend a meeting of the academic board of the New Zealand University Senate. Mr. P. B. Hume, who has been in. charge of the shipping department of the Christchurch branch of tl# National Mortgage and Agency Company;. Ltd., for more than forty years, has re* tired. He has been connected witlfc; shipping interests in New Zealand fof more than fifty years. Dr. E. Pi Allen, formerly of New Plymouth, has been appointed radioloV gist at the New Plymouth HospitaLAfter graduating at Otago University, . Dr. Allen was radium officer at tha. Cancer Hospital, London, for a year,,, and was awarded the Chester-Beatty Scholarship for radiological research, under which he spent a year at ths. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, New York. He is at present radiologist at the Leicester General InfirmaryMajor E. F. Clayton-Greene, of Hamilton, Officer Commanding the SecondMedium Battery, New Zealand Artillery, has been, appointed Officer Com-, manding . the forts' at North Head, Auckland- Captain F. M. Yendell, second in command of the Second Medium Battery, will take charge of the unit. Major Clayton-Greene served in the Great War. Wheri.the Second Medium Battery was formed he was appointed commanding officer. While under his command the battery twice, won the'trophy for the most efficient battery in New Zealand. Lieutenant-Colonel G. Grattan, chief secretary of the Salvation Army, was a • passenger to Wellington by the steamer express this morning. The Rev. Clyde Carr, M.P., arrived in Wellington from the south this morning. Advice has been a received by the honorary secretary Tor New Zealand of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, that in view of the outbreak of war the president of the institution; Dr. A. P. M. Fleming, has found it necessary to cancel his intended visit to Australia and New Zealand planned for February, 1940. Dr. Fleming hope* to make the trip when conditions become normal again. Mr. Finlay Robb, of Wellington, who has been in America for some time, is returning to New Zealand by the Mariposa, which will arrive at Auckland next Monday.